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Ryo-NORTON.

GULTIVATOR.

' No. 292.674,. Patented J,n.v29,

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REUBEN o. NORTON, on nOoIrFOnD, ILLINOIS, AssIGNOn ro UNION FOUN- nur AND MACHINE COMPANY, or sAiun rLAon.

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- SPECIFICATION forming para ef Lettere Patent Ne. 92,674, dated January 29, 1884,

Applicutitn filed July 14, 1883. (No model.)

To all, whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, REUBEN C. NORTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Rockford, in the county of T'Vinnebago and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gultivators, of which the following is a specification. -This invention relates to that class of cultivators known as straddle-row riding-cultivators;7 and its object is to produce a machine capable of adjustment to fit the machine to be successfully used by operators varying in height or weight, or both; and it consists in a seat mounted upon a seat-frame made adjustable bot-h vertical and lengthwise of the machine, all of which I accomplish by the devices represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a plan view of a portion of the main frame of a cultivator with my improvements in place thereon. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section on dotted line x. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on dotted-line y. Fig. '4 is an'isometrical representation of an ajustable support of the forward end of the seat-frame. Fig. 5 is an isometricalr representation of the metallic bracket upon the ends of the seat-frame.

In the figures, A represents the wood portion ofthe axle-tree; B, the tongue-,beams having their rear end portions fixed to the upper face of the axle-tree on the end portions thereof, and C represents a transverse draft-beam fixed to the under face of the tongue-beams a suitable distance forward of the axle-tree. These parts are of the usual size, form, and material as like parts of like machines now in use, and are joined to each other in substantially the same manner as like parts in like machines are joined to each other.

The adjustable support of the scat-frame represented in Fig. et consists of a bed-plate, D, to engage the under face of the tonguebeams, a-nd vertical iianges a to embrace the under edge portions of the vertical sides of t-he beams. The bed-plate of this adjustable seat support is provided centrally with a lengthwise slot, b, to receivea clamping-bolt,

c, passed through the vertical center of the beam in such a manner as to fix the support to the beam` and permit it to be adjusted.

lengthwise thereon by means of its central lengthwise slot. This support is provided with a studj ournal, d, projecting laterally from the edge vport-ion thereof in such a manner as to enter holes provided for its reception in brackets fixed to the forward ends of the beams of the seat-frame.

At E are represented beams of suitable `di mensions suitably joined at their rear ends, from which point of connection they diverge, producing a frame of V form. The diverging ends of the beams of this seat-frame are provided with metallic brackets, (represented at Fig. 5,) consisting of a plate, F, to receive the vertical side of the beams of the seat-frame, and flanges @,to embrace the inner, upper, and lower corner edges thereof. The forward ends of these bracketsare provided with a series .fixed on the rear meeting ends of the seatframe. rlhis seat-supporting frame, with the seat fixed thereon, is'placed upon the main supporting-frame to rest upon the axle-tree as ajfulcrum, having its rearward driving ends extending forward thereof in such a manner that the holes h in the brackets shall receive the stud-journals d of the adjustable supportof the seat-frame in such a manner that any of the holes h may be placed upon the stud-journals d.

From the foregoing it will be seen that by means of the series of holes h, in connection with the stud-journals d, the' seat may be adjusted tovany height within the limits of the deviceA to adapt it to the height of 'the operator; and bymeans of the slotted supports of the seat-frame and their screw-bolt connection with the tongue-beams the seat is inade adjustable-in t-he lengthwise direction of` the machine toany extent within the limits IOO of the device to properly balance the machine holes, and stud-jourimls connecting said parts with operators differing in weight. together, substantially as and for the purpose I claim as my inveutiouset forth. The combination of the tongue-beams pro- REUBEN C. NORTON. 5 vided with the slotted adjustable flanged bedll'itnesses:

plates, Jshe seat frame beams provided with F. PETERSON,

the brackets F, having a series of adjusting A. O. BEHEL. 

